Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little “cool for cool’s sake” but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.
Every time I think of the Ent-D warp core I think if the scene where Data and Geordie are testing some alien disruptor weapon literally next to the warp core, and with it pointed directly at the core . Cracks me up.
Yea picard had the office with the fish that was right off the bridge. Sisko had his office with the baseball on the desk right off ops. Don’t remember Kirk having one. I think there were ones in the newer shows too. Janeway I think still had the best one though.
In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
Always TNG/Ent-D.
Voyager had some cool design choices though. Not specific to the warp core/Engineering. Just overall. Such a well designed ship. Maybe a little “cool for cool’s sake” but I was a teenager when it started airing and I liked it. Still do.
Every time I think of the Ent-D warp core I think if the scene where Data and Geordie are testing some alien disruptor weapon literally next to the warp core, and with it pointed directly at the core . Cracks me up.
Janeway had the best ready room. Huge windows and giant comfy couch.
Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard’s was just an office.
Yea picard had the office with the fish that was right off the bridge. Sisko had his office with the baseball on the desk right off ops. Don’t remember Kirk having one. I think there were ones in the newer shows too. Janeway I think still had the best one though.
Was Sisko’s office a ready room though? I think it was just the commander’s office.
Maybe they serve the same function. I’m well aware of Sisko’s office, but I just never thought of it as a ready room.
Never understood why voyager’s nacelles moved before warping. Seems purely aesthetic with no use other than to distinguish it.
In a documentary with writers who worked with Roddenberry they said it was his design choice for all ships. Apparently warp nacelles are supposed to have 40% empty space between them for the warp field to generate. In Voyager they rotated up to exit the plane of the ship.
It’s also the reason that the romulan ships have that big space in the middle.
Basically that. It made for good TV.
Now I’m wondering if Discovery needed to spin or if that was more of the same.
In canon, it was described as an implementation of “variable warp geometry”.
To keep repeated warp use from destroying the fabric of spacetime, like in that episode where they talked about the warp speed limit.